TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gronau, Norbert
A1  - Schaefer, Martin
T1  - Why metadata matters for the future of copyright
JF  - European Intellectual Property Review
N2  - In the copyright industries of the 21st century, metadata is the grease required to make the engine of copyright run smoothly and powerfully for the benefit of creators, copyright industries and users alike. However, metadata is difficult to acquire and even more difficult to keep up to date as the rights in content are mostly multi-layered, fragmented, international and volatile. This article explores the idea of a neutral metadata search and enhancement tool that could constitute a buffer to safeguard the interests of the various proprietary database owners and avoid the shortcomings of centralised databases.
KW  - copyright
KW  - databases
KW  - metadata
KW  - music industry
Y1  - 2021
SN  - 0142-0461
VL  - 43
IS  - 8
SP  - 488
EP  - 494
PB  - Sweet & Maxwell
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - van Hooland, Seth
A1  - Verborgh, Ruben
A1  - De Wilde, Max
A1  - Hercher, Johannes
A1  - Mannens, Erik
A1  - Van de Walle, Rik
T1  - Evaluating the success of vocabulary reconciliation for cultural heritage collections
JF  - Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
N2  - The concept of Linked Data has made its entrance in the cultural heritage sector due to its potential use for the integration of heterogeneous collections and deriving additional value out of existing metadata. However, practitioners and researchers alike need a better understanding of what outcome they can reasonably expect of the reconciliation process between their local metadata and established controlled vocabularies which are already a part of the Linked Data cloud. This paper offers an in-depth analysis of how a locally developed vocabulary can be successfully reconciled with the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) and the Arts and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) through the help of a general-purpose tool for interactive data transformation (OpenRefine). Issues negatively affecting the reconciliation process are identified and solutions are proposed in order to derive maximum value from existing metadata and controlled vocabularies in an automated manner.
KW  - semantic web
KW  - metadata
KW  - controlled vocabularies
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.22763
SN  - 1532-2882
VL  - 64
IS  - 3
SP  - 464
EP  - 479
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Hoboken
ER  -